Relational peace versus pacific primacy: Configuring US strategy for Asia's regional order

IF 1 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Van Jackson
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Abstract

This article challenges the presumption that American commitment to the greater Indo-Pacific region has positive effects on regional stability. It argues that the degree to which America's strategic choices in Asia embrittle or consolidate peace depends on how they intersect with relational configurations of regional order. An accommodative strategy of restraint and mutual threat reduction offers the greatest stability with the least risk either when China's ties to a unified Asia are predatory or when Asia is fractured but China's ties to it are cooperative. A balance-of-power strategy offers the greatest stability and least risk when China's ties to a fractured Asia are confrontational or predatory. And an institutional strategy offers the greatest stability with the least risk when China enjoys broadly cooperative ties to Asia regardless of whether Asian states are unified or fractured. Crucially, a strategy of primacy or containment embrittles regional peace because it conflicts with every foreseeable configuration of relational order. America's role as a Pacific Power should adapt to local relational conditions if it is to serve the greater purpose of regional peace.

关系和平与太平洋优先:为亚洲地区秩序配置美国战略
这篇文章挑战了美国对大印太地区的承诺对地区稳定有积极影响的假设。它认为,美国在亚洲的战略选择在多大程度上破坏或巩固和平,取决于它们如何与地区秩序的关系格局相交。当中国与统一的亚洲的关系是掠夺性的,或者当亚洲破裂但中国与之的关系是合作性的时,克制和相互减少威胁的宽松战略提供了最大的稳定性和最小的风险。当中国与分裂的亚洲的关系是对抗性或掠夺性的时,力量平衡战略提供了最大的稳定性和最小的风险。当中国与亚洲建立广泛的合作关系时,无论亚洲国家是统一的还是分裂的,制度战略都能提供最大的稳定性和最小的风险。至关重要的是,首要或遏制战略会破坏地区和平,因为它与关系秩序的每一种可预见的配置都相冲突。如果要为地区和平的更大目标服务,美国作为太平洋大国的角色应该适应当地的关系条件。
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